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Kritika, Volume 9, Number 4 (Fall 2008)

Contents

Special Issue: Imagining the West in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union

From the Editors
Passing through the Iron Curtain            703

Articles

Catriona Kelly
Defending Children’s Rights, “In Defense of Peace”: Children and Soviet Cultural Diplomacy             711

Greg Castillo
East as True West: Redeeming Bourgeois Culture, from Socialist Realism to Ostalgie            747

David Crowley
Paris or Moscow? Warsaw Architects and the Image of the Modern City in the 1950s             769

Elaine Kelly
Imagining Richard Wagner: The Janus Head of a Divided Nation            799

Paulina Bren
Mirror, Mirror, on the Wall … Is the West the Fairest of Them All? Czechoslovak Normalization and Its (Dis)contents            831

Susan E. Reid
Who Will Beat Whom? Soviet Popular Reception of the American National Exhibition in Moscow, 1959            855

Barbara Walker
Moscow Human Rights Defenders Look West: Attitudes toward U.S. Journalists in the 1960s and 1970s            905

Reaction

György Péteri
The Occident Within—or the Drive for Exceptionalism and Modernity            929

Reviews

Donald Ostrowski

Sergei Alekseevich Bugoslavskii, Tekstologiia drevnei Rusi [The 
Textology of Old Rus´]. 2 vols., ed. Iurii A. Artamonov; Andrei 
Leonidovich Nikitin, Tekstologiia russkikh letopisei XI–nachala XIV vv. 
[A Textology of Rus´ Chronicles from the 11th to the Early 14th 
Centuries], 1; M. F. Kotliar, V. Iu. Franchuk, and A. G. Plakhonin, 
eds., Galitsko-Volynskaia letopis´: Tekst. Kommentarii. Issledovanie 
[The Galician–Volynian Chronicle: Text, Commentary, Research]            939

Vera Dubina

N. E. Koposov, N. D. Potapova, and M. M. Krom, eds., Istoricheskie 
poniatiia i politicheskie idei v Rossii XVI–XX veka: Sbornik nauchnykh 
rabot [Historical Concepts and Political Ideas in Russia in the 
16th–20th Centuries: A Collection of Scholarly Works]; Peter Тhiergen, 
ed., Russische Begriffsgeschichte der Neuzeit: Beiträge zu einem 
Forschungsdesiderat [Russian Conceptual History of the Modern Period: 
Contributions to a Research Desideratum]            949

Bradley D. Woodworth

Max Engman, Pietarinsuomalaiset [Petersburg Finns]; Raimo Pullat, 
Lootuste linn: Peterburi ja eesti haritlaskonna kujunemine kuni 1917 
[City of Hopes: Petersburg and the Formation of the Estonian 
Intelligentsia to 1917]; Izabella Shangina, Natal´ia Revunenkova, and 
Natal´ia Iukhneva, eds., Mnogonatsional´nyi Peterburg: Istoriia, 
religii, narody [Multinational Petersburg: History, Religions, 
Peoples]            963

Johannes Remy

Ricarda Vulpius, Nationalisierung der Religion: Russifizierungspolitik 
und ukrainische Nationsbuildung, 1860–1920 [The Nationalization of 
Religion: Russification Policy and Ukrainian Nation-Building, 
1860–1920]            977

Marc Elie

Rudol´f Germanovich Pikhoia, Moskva, Kreml´, vlast´ [Moscow,
the Kremlin, Power], 2 vols.            988

Letters

Michael Melancon

Reply to Lars Lih            997

Contributors to This Issue            999


Carolyn Pouncy
Managing Editor
Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History
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